It does not fit the narrative. (I earlier advised libs to stay away from "2016: Obama’s America," because it would be too hard for them to watch. Ebert must be taking my advice.
Heshima Kenya, one of a kind
Leftist Newsroom Chatter
About those liberal media folks, veteran of many newsrooms commenting on the Yahoo Wash. bureau chief, former ABC political editor, saying Republicans rejoice “when black people drown”:
I could write a thousand columns on comments like these, and similar comments I heard while in newsrooms over the years. In my newsroom there were people crying out loud and tears shed when George W. Bush was elected in 2000. There were cheers when Al Gore rescinded his resignation. It is the culture. Leftists live and thrive in this environment, and they are rewarded with advancements. Rarely are they held accountable because they know management is on their side.
The perp was fired, But the culture remains:
The bias is . . . too deep, too ingrained, and they really don’t want to change. It’s like telling a rattlesnake not to bite. They will cease to exist before they correct the culture.
CNN: Pro-lifers up in U.S. by 27 points
Romney packing them in, Ohio
Challenge to fashionistas on 35th Street
Come one, come all, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 to Bridgeport Art Center, 1200 West 35th Street, Chicago, where:
Chicago’s Designers are inspiring hope.
Five of Chicago’s hottest fashion designers are set to compete in Heshima Kenya’s second annual Fashion Challenge.
The Project Runway-inspired competition will be kicking off with a fabulous signature cocktail, the Maisha Martini, and provisions provided by Food for Thought.. . .
Trust me, the cause is a darn good one — the Maisha Collective, an income-generating project for the unaccompanied refugee artisan women Heshima Kenya serves in Nairobi.
Go Heshima Kenya!
The worst announcah evah!!!
In his defense of Hawk Harrelson, D. Byrne quotes him:
“If I do that [change his broadcasting style], I’ll quit,” Harrelson said before he went to the microphone for the Sox-Mariners game.
If I believed that, I’d feel better.
Meanwhile, thanks to Denny Byrne for gathering sites that complain about the man named Hawk. Them I do believe, sob!
Bringing up Barack Jr.
More on the 2016: Obama’s America movie, about his upbringing. Red diaper baby indeed:
In 2008, I was initially disturbed by Obama’s bizarre hero worship of his absentee Kenyan father which sometimes bordered upon pagan idolatry. During the same 2008 campaign, by virtue of reading British newspaper articles, I was aware of the fact that Obama’s father was less of an outstanding academic and renowned economist and more of a violent alcoholic and bigamist. He was also a Marxist who believed that a tax rate of one hundred percent could be justifiable.
Equally as chilling are the backgrounds of Obama’s leftist mother and his maternal grandparents. Obama is truly a “Red Diaper Baby.” Scarier still is association with Frank Marshall Davis, a card carrying member of the Communist Party, selected by Obama’s grandparents to serve as Obama’s mentor and surrogate father figure.
This is another part of the d’Souza film that hits hard.
Teachers: Ask us, don’t measure us; money is secondary
Chi Teachers president Karen Lewis and other teacher unionists in yesterday’s Sun-Times, “Cash upfront the way to get teachers to rack up better student test scores, study finds”:
* Karen L: Economists don’t understand us.
(Teachers are different from you and me: they don’t care about money. But they are like you and me: they prefer not to be held to account, would rather have a sure thing. Hence their aversion to being measured.)
* Chicago Heights teacher, one of 150 studied by U. of Chi economists and discovered to be motivated by early bonus payout which they have to pay back if scores are not up to snuff: We were snookered (by U of Chi economists, who didn’t say they were economists — point mildly contested by experimenters’ spokesperson.) It was a bad test.
How so? Teacher: We thought they were education professors. Ed profs would have asked us what works. (But Econ profs study them, not what they say.) They don’t understand us. (We’re different.)
* Karen L: “Nothing is better [for a teacher] than seeing the light bulb turn on” in student head. (Not even higher pay? Then why fight City Hall on contract money?)
Concealed-carry shooter saves cop
Kills the bad guy after warning. Read all about it nationally. No? No.:
Only local station WAFB reported this incident. FBI Supplemental Homicide Reports show that private citizens killed police attackers only three times annually since 2000. Yet an unusual and compelling story of self-defense by a concealed carry licensee gets mentioned only by local media. Media blackouts allow anti-rights propagandists to continue claiming that self-defense incidents are rare, so banning concealed carry wouldn’t be an imposition.
Thing is, if it’s not reported, it didn’t happen.
(H/T: Instapundit)
